Carolyn Hax: Give only facts about broken engagement

7:04 PM,
Feb. 1, 2013

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Dear Carolyn: I'm about to break up with my fiancé of five years. I'm nervous, but I have friends supporting me and I'm pretty sure I can handle it.

Everyone knows my fiancé, and people frequently profess how great they think he is.

How am I going to explain to everyone I know that I'm scrapping the relationship and life plan I've been working toward for five years, without going into the gory details? I have the uncomfortable feeling that if I did share the gory details, I'd get a lot of minimizing and apologism that I really don't want to have to deal with. -- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ...